Doing the SASS "Try it" with Compass?

[rdougan]

RE: http://sass-lang.com/try.html

Has anyone done this with Compass, or can point me in the right
direction to do it? I'm thinking the only way would be to create a
temp file on the server, and then run the compass command and get the
result from the generated CSS file.

Does Compass have some methods I could call via Ruby itself, without
me digging through the source too much?

Thanks.

[Chris Eppstein]

It's pretty easy to render a string to css like this:

Sass::Engine.new(content, Compass.configuration.to_sass_engine_options).render

you will need to pass :syntax => :scss if it's an scss file.

chris

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[Robert Dougan]

Yeah; the problem is including all the Compass frameworks so I can use them.

[Chris Eppstein]

That snippet will make all compass libraries available for import.

[Brandon Mathis]

So if you want, you can pre-populate your text entry field with @import "compass" to import all automatically imported modules.

- Brandon Mathis (via iPad)

[Robert Dougan]

Ah, I see. Awesome, got it working. Thanks.

Only remaining issue is importing my own SCSS extension. Can this be done easily, or should I just concat all the files together and put prepend it to the SCSS string?

[Chris Eppstein]

It's really no different than the compass libraries. You need to make sure your directory is on the load path:

Compass.configuration.add_import_path "path/to/extension/stylesheets"

Sass::Engine.new(content, Compass.configuration.to_sass_engine_options).render

And then either the user needs to import your library or you can prepend an import statement for them.

chris

[Robert Dougan]

Great, thank you. Got everything working as I needed.

[Chris Eppstein]

Great. Can't wait to see what you're making!

[Brandon Mathis]

Indeed, me too!

- Brandon Mathis (via iPhone)